!!!Jung-Wien

Jung-Wien (Young Vienna), a group of Viennese poets and authors around 
1900, who, because of their meeting place, Cafe Griensteidl, and 
because their discussions there helped them to develop their 
individual ideas, became known as "Kaffeehausliteraten" ("coffee-house 
writers"). Their leader was H.  Bahr; other members of the group were 
A.  Schnitzler, F.  Doermann, P.  Altenberg, R.  Beer-Hofmann, F.  
Salten, R.  Auernheimer, H. v.  Hofmannsthal, and K.  Kraus. The 
group rejected naturalism, took up various modern artistic trends 
(symbolism, impressionism, decadence poetry), and established a new 
movement in Austrian literature, which was continued by such authors 
as S.  Zweig, R.  Musil, Oe. v.  Horváth or J.  Roth. The 
tenets of the group found expression in H. Bahr´s weekly 
periodical "Die Zeit" (1894-1904).

!Literature
G. Wunberg, Jung-Wien, 2 vols., 1976; J. Rieckmann, 
Aufbruch in die Moderne, 1985.


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